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What is a Proposal?

"Proposals" definition: Proposals detail ideas, brainstorms or potential solutions to a known issue or problem in the code, community or process. Proposals may recommend changes we could make that may help us resolve issues we've encountered in the past. A few examples: a proposal could recommend accepting or adding a new technology, changing an API, or changing how we interact as a team or plan new releases of the software.

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• Special Topics are higher level topics/questions/problems which need to be addressed or discussed. They may include some details or background about the problem domain, but should not suggest any particular solutions to the problem.
• Development Proposals should present potential solutions to the problem. One Special Topic (e.g. "How can we better handle Preservation Metadata?") may result in many Proposals (e.g. "Option #1", "Option #2", "Combo of Option #1 and #2", etc.)

Overview: Adding a new Proposal

This page is a place to post new proposals for review by DSpace Community and/or Developers. New proposals can recommend any sort of change to solve an existing or perceived problem/issue. A few examples: a proposal could recommend accepting or adding a new technology, changing an API, or changing how we interact as a team or plan new releases of the software.

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1. Visit the proposal page and either comment on the proposal directly, or add your thoughts on the "discussion" page.
2. Please keep comments constructive. Give reasons why you agree/disagree to help us improve upon the proposal.

Development Proposals

Place for proposals about underlying development and technology changes in the software (e.g. API changes, architecture/design changes, etc.). Technology changes may need to be sub-categorized if we start to receive many different levels of proposals.

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Organizational Proposals

Place for proposals around improving how we as a community or as a development team are organized. Including proposals about improving our normal DSpace release cycle (e.g. how frequently we release a new version, how we plan those releases, how we communicate those releases, etc.).

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Past Proposals

Past Proposals that were either accepted or rejected, see proposal notes for further details. By changing the label of the proposal to "pastproposal" and removing "organizationalproposal" and/or "developmentproposal" it will move to this list.

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